Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Best Private Lessons

Craving variety in your guitar playing? Satisfy your hunger for new guitar techniques and styles with Acoustic Guitar's collection of its finest lessons, hand-picked from its comprehensive lesson book library.

Players of all levels have a rare opportunity to explore a wide range of techniques, including fingerstyle, flatpicking, alternate tunings, and bottleneck slide, while enjoying a variety of musical styles—rock, blues, Celtic, swing, bluegrass, and more. You'll also learn how to make the most of your practice time, choose a teacher, and train your ear from the best guitar teachers around.

This comprehensive guide is available in two different formats:

• Book & CD package: 79 pages with written instruction from a selection of AG teachers, notation and tab, plus accompanying audio instruction available as CD.
• PDF & Audio Download package: Downloadable version featuring the complete written instruction (including standard notation and tablature) from the book, plus accompanying audio instruction. 

Includes:

RHYTHM

• Acoustic Rock Rhythm. By Mark Hanson.
• Chord Embellishment. By Dylan Schorer.
• Jazz Chord Basics.  By Dix Bruce.

LEAD

• Beginning Blues Soloing. By David Hamburger.
• Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes. By Scott Nygaard.

FINGERSTYLE TECHNIQUES

• Building Fingerstyle Arrangements.  By Andrew DuBrock.
• Steady Bass Fingerpicking. By David Hamburger.
• Your First Guitar Rag. By Dale Miller.

ALTERNATE TUNINGS

• The Magic of D A D G A D.  By Al Petteway.
• Bottleneck Slide in Open Tunings.  By Steve James.

LEARNING TIPS

• Practicing Secrets. By Kristina Olsen.
• Choosing a Teacher. By Gary Joyner.
• Learning Songs off Records. By Dylan Schorer.

SONGS

• Star of the Country Down
• June Apple
• Soldier's Joy
• Sand River Belle
• Greensleeves
• Guitar Rag
• She Moved Through the Faire
• Morrison's Jig
• John Henry
• Railroad Bill